Small Spaces

<b><i>New York Times</i> bestselling adult author of <i>The Bear and the Nightingale</i> makes her middle grade debut with a creepy spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. <br></b><br>After suffering a tragic loss eleven-year-old Ollie who only finds solace in books discovers a chilling ghost story about a girl named Beth the two brothers who loved her and a peculiar deal made with the smiling man--a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish but only for the ultimate price. <p/>Captivated by the tale Ollie begins to wonder if the smiling man might be real when she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about on a school trip to a nearby farm. Then later when her school bus breaks down on the ride home the strange bus driver tells Ollie and her classmates: Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you. Nightfall is indeed fast descending when Ollie's previously broken digital wristwatch begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN. <p/>Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed these warnings. As the trio head out into the woods--bordered by a field of scarecrows that seem to be watching them--the bus driver has just one final piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: Avoid large places. Keep to small. <p/>And with that a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.